Bugs Moran: Late to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Ruined Anyway
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On the freezing morning of February 14, 1929, George Bugs Moran was running late to a garage on ...
10 Okt 20min
Ronnie Biggs: The Bungling Train Robber Who Became a Punk Folk Hero
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ronald Arthur Biggs had one job in the Great Train Robbery of August 1963: bring a driver who co...
10 Okt 23min
Boot Hill: The Old West Graveyards Named for Poverty, Not Gunfights
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The legend says Boot Hill cemeteries were filled with gunfighters who died with their boots on. ...
10 Okt 18min
Police Sketches: Why Facial Composites Failed Until Faces Evolved
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!It is two in the morning in a police precinct, and a shaken witness is asked to describe a stran...
10 Okt 21min
Pickpocketing: The Art of Stolen Attention, From Cutpurses to Rome
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A sign in a crowded station says beware of pickpockets, and nearly everyone who reads it pats th...
10 Okt 20min
Penal Colonies: How Exiled Convicts Built Empires and Redrew the Map
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Until 1984, Colombia's Gorgona Island prison needed no walls. The jungle interior was full of ve...
10 Okt 24min
Rob Roy MacGregor: The Outlaw Whose Cattle Racket Gave Us Blackmail
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A cocktail, an undefeated Japanese racehorse, and a glacier in New Zealand all carry the name of...
10 Okt 24min
The Champawat Tiger: 436 Deaths and the Broken Tooth Behind Them
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!An estimated 436 people were killed by a single female Bengal tiger. Her attacks began in the la...
10 Okt 21min
